2014-09-03 08:45
Cape Town - In a vivid sign of the danger posed by
inadequate health provision, a man escaped from an Ebola
quarantine centre in Monrovia and sent people fleeing in
fear as he walked through a market in search of food,
according to Reuters.
Watch the video below
The patient, who wore a tag showing he had tested positive
for Ebola, held a stick and threw stones at a doctor from the
centre in the Paynesville neighbourhood who stood at a
distance and tried to persuade him to give himself up.
At one point, he stumbled and fell, apparently weakened by
illness. Healthcare workers wearing protective clothing
forced him into a medical vehicle and returned him to the
facility.
Liberia and other West African countries are struggling to
enforce quarantine zones to halt the spread of the deadly
virus amid a pervasive fear and mistrust of authorities.
Many patients have fled their isolation wards in Liberia and
Sierra Leone, and in one sealed-off neighbourhood in
Liberia, security forces recently fired on residents who were
protesting the quarantine.
International medical agency Medecins sans Frontieres
(MSF) said on Tuesday the world "was losing the battle" to
contain Ebola as the United Nations warned of severe food
shortages in the hardest-hit countries.
MSF told a UN briefing in New York that world leaders were
failing to address the epidemic and called for an urgent
global biological disaster response to get aid and personnel
to west Africa.
More than 1 500 people have died from the Ebola outbreak,
according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The
United Nations warned on Tuesday that food prices were
rising and that border closures were preventing people from
getting supplies they needed.
source PM NEWS

VIDEO HERE:
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